Updated: November 2, 2001

"Here are some key words, phrases and names which may help to understand the Buffalo mindset Petri created: lifestyle master, street aristocrat, buffalo style, grandjack, jamie morgan, norman watson, nick kamen, barry simon, neneh cherry, fashion, dj, remix, uniforms, iconograph, bomber jackets, doc martens, superfly, realness, hot pants, suits, culture club." —Claude Sabbah, Trace

"Buffalo's legacy was to bring the street to mainstream attention..." —V

"Petri originated the fashion tribe with Buffalo, a loosely knit collection of models, photographers, musicians, and scensters... Though Petri died in 1989, his influence lingers, and Buffalo is a timely reminder of a kinder, gentler era in fashion before experimentation and innocence were cut short by the twin plagues of AIDS and overdoses. Memories are made of this." —Flaunt

"Buffalo was the visual youthquake of the '80s that informed all in its shadow.... This roguish urban male style, created by Petri and informed by a talent pool of designers and models was more gang than runway. Petri's look took bits and pieces of Britain's post-punk '80s: East Indians, blacks, punk whites, rude boys, mods, ragamuffin Jamaicans, New Romantics and boxers, and tossed them into an exotic whole.... If you think you missed that decade's bold empowered fashions, look at the model Tyson. Or check out bald, beautiful and defiant Alek Wek. Or look at the casually trashed kids in Calvin Klein ads or Guy Ritchie's Snatch or Madonna's present day buffalo gal look." —Philadelphia Style

" his work for THe Face, i-D, and Arena, Ray Petri pioneered an aesthetic that brought the innate style of men of African descent to the forefront of fashion, merging sensuous androgyny with survival-at-all-costs realness.... Filled with moving testimony to his personality and spirit, this book is provocative, inspiring and totally essential." —One World